Anti-catholicism Has Always Been The Pornography Of

Intellectualism, Though By No Means Confined To Doubters, Is Often The Sole Piety Of The Skeptic.

Whatever The Intellectual Is Too Certain Of, If He Is Healthily Playful, He Begins To Find Unsatisfactory. The Meaning Of His Intellectual Life Lies Not In The Possession Of Truth But In The Quest For New Uncertainties.

To The Zealot Overcome By His Piety And To The Journeyman Of Ideas Concerned Only With His Marketable Mental Skills, The Beginning And End Of Ideas Lies In Their Efficacy With Respect To Some Goal External To Intellectual Processes.

The Intellectual Is Engage-he Is Pledged, Committed, Enlisted. What Everyone Else Is Willing To Admit, Namely That Ideas And Abstractions Are Of Signal Importance In Human Life, He Imperatively Feels.

There Has Always Been In Our National Experience A Type Of Mind Which Elevates Hatred To A Kind Of Creed; For This Mind, Group Hatreds Take A Place In Politics Similar To The Class Struggle In Some Other Modern Societies.